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CNN.com - U.S., Iraqi troops launch Tal Afar offensive - Jun 7, 2005 Tal Afar is one of the most dangerous places in Iraq. TAL AFAR, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi troops on Tuesday launched an offensive against insurgents in the northwestern city of Tal Afar -- not far from the Syrian border. The Tal Afar operation follows two offensives in May when troops conducted Operation Matador near Qaim along the Euphrates River and Operation New Market in Haditha, both designed to thwart suicide car bombings and other attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere. www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/06/07/iraq.main/index.html   (755 words)

Fighting Rages in Tal Afar The operation in Tal Afar came during a period of unusual violence elsewhere in Iraq, with a series of battles breaking out south of Baghdad after insurgents wearing Iraqi Army uniforms abducted 18 people in a Shiite area and shot them to death late Friday evening. Tal Afar, which is 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, has long been a transit point for insurgents smuggling weapons and foreign fighters across the Syrian border. The operation in Tal Afar came as leading Sunni Arab and Turkmen political parties in Kirkuk announced that they were opposed to Iraq's new constitution and would wage a campaign for its defeat in the Oct. 15 referendum. www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_091105D.shtml   (1313 words)

Iraq Prime Minister Said to Tour Tal Afar TAL AFAR, Iraq—Iraq’s prime minister toured the ancient northern city of Tal Afar on Monday—ignoring an alleged al-Qaida threat to strike with chemical weapons—to congratulate Iraqi forces for rousting militants from their stronghold near Syria, Iraqi television reported. Al-Dulaimi said the offensive in Tal Afar would be a model as his forces soon thrust farther west toward the Syrian border and south into the Euphrates valley. Most of Tal Afar’s residents _ 90 percent of them Turkmen _ fled before the fighting, and tens of thousands are living in tent cities to the north and east. sacunion.com /pages/world/articles/6137   (1090 words)

Middle East Online Tal Afar is known as a hotbed of insurgent activity Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border, is known as a hotbed of insurgent activity. "Tal Afar is witnessing tension because networks of foreign fighters have come to the city and taken advantage of some problems there," government spokesman Laith Kubba told reporters Sunday. www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=14450   (393 words)

Tal Afar; war crimes in Bush’s dystopia : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) If Tal Afar is the idyllic, democratic utopia Bush boasts about, then open the city to “unembedded” journalists who can confirm what he says and provide us with the details. In Tal Afar, the terrorists had schools for kidnapping and beheading.” (Schools for beheading?) “And they sent a clear message to the citizens of the city: Anyone who opposes their reign of terror will be murdered.” (absurd) Tel Afar was about “ethnic-payback” pure and simple; a strategy that fits seamlessly with the broader aims of the occupation to crush the indigenous resistance and to “divide and conquer”. sf.indymedia.org /news/2006/03/1726150.php   (1653 words)

SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Iraqis in Tal Afar question Bush's optimism TAL AFAR, Iraq – U.S. President George W. Bush held up the northern town of Tal Afar this week as an example of progress being made in Iraq but many residents find it hard to share his optimism. U.S. and Iraqi forces said Tal Afar was used as a conduit for smuggling in equipment and foreign fighters from Syria on the way to cities across central Iraq. 'The situation in Tal Afar is deteriorating and the smell of death is everywhere. www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20060324-1016-iraq-talafar.html   (787 words)

RADAMISTO: A TALE OF TWO CITIES I'm going to tell you the story of a northern Iraqi city called Tal Afar, which was once a key base of operations for al Qaeda and is today a free city that gives reason for hope for a free Iraq. The military success against the terrorists helped give the citizens of Tal Afar security, and this allowed them to vote in the elections and begin to rebuild their city. Tal Afar now is being guarded by 4000 US troops, 8000 Iraqi troops and 1700 Iraqi policemen. radamisto.blogspot.com /2006/03/tale-of-two-cities.html   (665 words)

Insurgents Flee Iraq Town , Opposition Fighters Escape Through Tunnels As U.S. And Iraqi Forces Engage In Offensive - ... Lynch said operations in Tal Afar were part of a much larger, nationwide plan to destroy insurgent and al Qaeda bases, which included ongoing operations in Mosul, Qaim and the western town of Rutba. In the Tal Afar sweep, Al-Dulaimi said five government soldiers were killed and three wound in what was the biggest military operation in Iraq for months. The offensive in Tal Afar is especially delicate because of the tangle of ethnic sensitivities in the region. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/09/12/iraq/main835059.shtml   (1113 words)

US Preparing Massive Assault On Tal Afar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) "In Tal Afar, coalition forces and members of the Iraqi security forces are preparing a possible military operation to rid that city of insurgents," Major General Rick Lynch told a news briefing in Baghdad. The United States sees Tal Afar, near the Syrian border, as a conduit for foreign fighters and military equipment coming into Iraq to help insurgents fighting the occupying US forces and the Shi'ite Muslim - and Kurdish - dominated Iraqi government. He said US forces had "indications" that insurgents were living in Tal Afar, and intelligence reports suggested some 20 percent of them were "foreign fighters." He did not say where they came from. www.rense.com /general67/TAL.HTM   (465 words)

Turkey reacts with fury to massive US assault on northern Iraqi city   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) The US army account of its aims in besieging Tal Afar is largely at odds with that given by Turkmen and may indicate that its officers are at sea in the complex ethnic mosaic of Iraq. "Tal Afar is a tribal city and its people were not patient with the presence of American forces," said Farouq Abdullah Abdul Rahman, the president of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, in Baghdad yesterday. The Turkmen of Tal Afar are Shia Muslims, unlike most of the rest of their community who are Sunni. www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=5462   (842 words)

Terrorists flee Tal Afar in face of coalition TAL AFAR, Iraq (Army News Service, Sept. 24, 2004) - A coordinated offensive operation by Multi-National Forces and Iraqi security troops this month have chased the terrorists out of Tal Afar in northern Iraq, after six months of violence there. Houses are riddled with bullet holes along Route Santa Fe, a main highway running through the outskirts of Tal Afar, used by terrorists to attack Multi-National Forces and Iraqis in recent months. Many of the people who live on higher ground were not getting water because there was not enough pressure in the lines to reach all the neighborhoods in Tal Afar, a problem officials said existed in the city even before terrorists moved in. www4.army.mil /ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=6395   (779 words)

Cox & Forkum: Tal Afar Tal Afar is one of two major transit zones for foreign fighters coming into Iraq, Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., commander of Multinational Force Iraq, said from Baghdad today. It is unclear as to whether the dispersal of terrorist forces, who seem mostly to be local Sunni Arab tribal fighters and al Qaeda "Foreigners", is a planned response in the event of defeat or a spontaneous development. The damage to al Qaeda was serious enough to elicit a public announcement from the terrorist organization, where it announced a new wave of suicide bombings, as revenge for the success of the Tal Afar, and related, operations. www.coxandforkum.com /archives/000671.html   (1033 words)

Tal Afar: Calm Before the Storm in Sarai (The Fourth Rail) After cordoning off the Sarai neighborhood of Tal Afar, U.S. troops are waiting for residents to leave before executing the assault. Hess also confirms that the operations in Tal Afar are indeed part of a ‘clear and hold’ mission. The troops of the 3rd ACR will not be abandoning Tal Afar to the predations of al Qaeda and the insurgency, but stay to restore and maintain order in a strategic city along one of al Qaeda’s main ratlines from Syria. billroggio.com /archives/2005/09/tal_afar_calm_b.php   (2574 words)

Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Finding their homes flattened, some families are leaving Tal Afar and living in a refugee camp on the city’s peripheries. US and Iraqi forces argue that Tal Afar is being used as a conduit for equipment and foreign fighters allegedly smuggled in from Syria. In August of 2004, Tal Afar was the scene of a deadly US offensive that killed hundreds of its residents and displaced thousands. www.islam-online.net /English/News/2005-09/24/article02.shtml   (565 words)

Tal Afar; war crimes in Bush’s dystopia          The siege of Tal Afar was recently celebrated on CBS’ 60 Minutes in a segment called “Tal Afar: Al Qaida’s Town”; a thoroughly absurd piece of Pentagon-inspired propaganda intended to shore up flagging support for Bush’s war. The siege of Tal Afar began on September 2, 2005. “Tal Afar was 70% Sunni Turkmen and 30% Shiite Turkmen. www.informationclearinghouse.info /article12440.htm   (1698 words)

Tal Afar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tal Afar (also Tal Afar,Tall Afar) (in Arabic: تل عفر, in Kurdish: Telehfer) (also تلعفر) is a city in northern Iraq, about 30 miles west of Mosul. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, insurgents used Tal Afar as a staging point for attacks. Tal Afar has also been the scene of sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tal_Afar   (224 words)

ISN Security Watch - Operation in Tal Afar a ‘success’ In preparation for the operation, the US military began construction of a wall around Tal Afar in July in an effort to keep insurgents and weapons from streaming into the town, similar to the 64-kilometer dirt berm earlier constructed around Mosul by the US Army Corps of Engineers for the same purpose. But media reports from embedded journalists indicated that the streets of Tal Afar were more or less empty when troops entered the town on 10 September, suggesting, as in earlier operations such as the major offensive into Falluja in November 2004, that the insurgents had fled the city in previous days along with local residents. Muhammad Rashid, the Sunni mayor of Tal Afar, reportedly resigned on 10 September in protest of the operation's targeting of Sunni neighborhoods, AP reported. www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=12787   (1066 words)

Media Matters - NY Times, Fox News, and NPR reported Bush's Tal Afar assessment as fact See, if you're a resident of Tal Afar today, this is what you're going to see: You see that the terrorist who once exercised brutal control over every aspect of your city has been killed or captured or driven out or put on the run. But while she noted military analysts' position that the 2005 Tal Afar offensive "would be difficult if not impossible to replicate in other parts of Iraq," she also reported that neither these analysts nor the correspondents reporting from the city "dispute Mr. And given the deep ethnic and sectarian divides in Tall Afar, he said, it is quite possible that the city could succumb to civil war, along with the rest of the country. mediamatters.org /items/200603210014   (2664 words)

Iraq leader visits Tal Afar - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com TAL AFAR, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister toured the ancient northern city of Tal Afar on Monday — ignoring an alleged al-Qaida threat to strike with chemical weapons — to congratulate Iraqi forces for rousting militants from their stronghold near Syria, Iraqi television reported. The raids were launched in response to a roadside bombing that targeted an Iraqi patrol earlier in the day, killing one soldier and wounding three, said Capt. Mohammed Ahmed, an Iraqi army spokesman in Tal Afar. Al-Iraqiya reported that al-Jaafari was in Tal Afar in defiance of "a terrorist threat to attack the city with chemical and biological weapons." www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9266579   (718 words)

Iron fist in Tal Afar While the U.S. military aims in Tal Afar are unlikely to be met, Washington at least hopes for some near-term political gains by pushing Iraqi troops to the fore and giving its puppet government the illusion of power. The attack on Tal Afar, according to Iraq expert Juan Cole, is “an attempt by the U.S. to showcase newly trained Iraqi army units. The U.S. blitz on Tal Afar will also disrupt efforts by the Sunni population in Nineveh province from mobilizing for a “no” vote in the October 15 referendum on the new constitution. www.socialistworker.org /2005-2/557/557_05_TalAfar.shtml   (792 words)

Iraq: US military lays waste to Tal Afar To the extent there are “foreign fighters” in Tal Afar, they are men from across the region, fighting in an Arab country against Washington’s attempt to place Iraq under long-term American domination. The assault on Tal Afar is part of a broader offensive by the US military and the Baghdad government to suppress the widespread opposition to both the presence of US troops in the country and the draft constitution that is to be voted on at a referendum on October 15. Tal Afar is an indication of the methods being unleashed to prevent such an outcome. www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/iraq-s13.shtml   (1400 words)

News: Iraq, Iraq: Tal Afar refugees sheltered in Mosul Families displaced by the fighting in northern city of Tal Afar are flooding into the Mosul area where they’ve found shelter in crowded local homes but face shortages of food and medical supplies. Tal Afar was cleared of insurgents in military operations last year. Like Fadhil, many of Tal Afar’s 200,000 residents, most of whom are Sunni Turkmen, fled east from the desert town toward Mosul and surrounding villages. www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6GN853?OpenDocument   (696 words)

Tal Afar citizens collect money from Iraqi government TAL AFAR, Iraq (Army News Service, Oct. 31, 2005)— City officials in Tal Afar began handing out more $4.5 billion Iraqi Dinar to the citizens of the city Saturday morning. Tal Afar Mayor Najem greeted residents of the city as they stood in line to collect their money and gave words of encouragement and praise. Najem said that the people of Tal Afar were happy and upbeat after discovering the government provided money to the people — many of whom had suffered from terrorist attacks in their neighborhoods. www4.army.mil /ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=8134   (299 words)

Iraqi Troops Kill 141 "Insurgents" In Tal Afar The United States sees Tal Afar, near the Syrian border, as a conduit for ‘foreign fighters and military equipment’ coming into Iraq to help resistance fighters fighting the occupying US forces and the Shiite-Kurdish-dominated Iraqi government. Tal Afar has been a stronghold for foreign fighters and insurgents against the US and Iraqi government forces. “Insurgents wanted to isolate Tal Afar from the political process as we are preparing for the referendum on the draft constitution, so our duty is to protect the country and the people and exert every effort to help all Iraqi people regardless of their backgrounds,” he said. www.gnn.tv /H04842   (473 words)

Tal Afar; Crackdown in the Sunni Heartland Also See: Juan Cole: Tal Afar as Ethnic Civil War: Much of the American press has reported the Tal Afar campaign as a strike by the new Iraqi Army, supported by US troops, against foreign infiltrators in the largely Turkmen city of 200,000. The siege of Tal Afar follows a familiar pattern of brutal American incursions into densely populated areas under the pretense of fighting terrorism. US-Led Troops Go House to House in Tal Afar: Iraqi and US troops went house to house in their search for rebel fighters in the northern town of Tal Afar after the rebels melted away in the face of their massive assault. gnn.tv /headlines/4887/Tal_Afar_Crackdown_in_the_Sunni_Heartland   (595 words)

Tal Afar: Al Qaeda's Town , Lara Logan Reports On Battle To Retake Iraqi Town - CBS News It's called Tal Afar and about 200,000 people who live there became prisoners in their own homes when terrorists took control and turned it into their town. Last fall, as correspondent Lara Logan found out when she traveled there, U.S. and Iraqi forces were determined to recapture Tal Afar, and the Bush administration has pointed to that operation as a model for how to fight and win the rest of the war. As commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry, he was given the mission to recapture Tal Afar. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/10/60minutes/main1389390.shtml   (866 words)

Tal Afar; crackdown in the Sunni Heartland He gave the siege of Tal Afar his personal blessing and said that the hostilities were being conducted "on his orders". The media has kept Tal Afar off the front page and framed the debacle as another crucial step in liberating Iraq from the disparate forces of terrorism. Tar Afar is simply a duplication of the same failed policy we have seen over and over again for the last two years. www.informationclearinghouse.info /article10264.htm   (833 words)

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